Posts by buckabucka

SCG, you need a weather station! It records wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, dew point, rainfall, high and low temperature, all kinds of stuff. It has freeze warnings, windchill, sunrise/sunset, moon phases, heat index,...

I've always been a charts and graphs type of person, but DH's reaction to SCG's spreadsheet for sprouting, budding, bearing fruit: "Tell her I think there's a drug for that". I don't think he's totally against the idea though,...

Quote:Originally Posted by superchemicalgirl Would it be bad if I even kept a spreadsheet of when things sprouted, when they formed buds, when they made food? And by the way, my cherry tree pits still haven't sprouted, and I've...

Quote:Originally Posted by Yvonne37894 Quote:Originally Posted by buckabucka Good luck kynewbchick! Does anyone have any tips for sexing lavenders? My chicks will be 6 weeks old this weekend. I want to pull the girls out of...

Thanks for the information Daloorashens! I'm really hoping the wheaten cockerel turns out to be a nice guy (I only have one). I'm thinking of replacing my current roo. He is an olive egger, great with people, not perfect with the...

Congrats on the chicks, cassbickford! Enjoy. Carrie, I don't know much about those breeds, but the Mille Fleur looks like a pullet and I agree pullet and cockerel on the sebrights.. That would be my guess. Good luck with the show,...

Good luck kynewbchick! Does anyone have any tips for sexing lavenders? My chicks will be 6 weeks old this weekend. I want to pull the girls out of there because I am creating a bachelor pen and mixing in a hatch of 10 week old...

Wow. I looked at that link and thought, nice birds! I do see the photo now on the wiki page. Slightly cropped, but definitely the same photo.

Quote:Originally Posted by lazy gardener The 3 big guys are harassing the daylights out of the little dom roos today.  I have a 2'H x 3'W x 6'L bottomless tractor.  I may kick them into that during the day, and let them back into...

Lazy gardener, I agree that things will go more smoothly with a bachelor pen. Sometimes, there is still a rooster who bullies the others, but I have never had blood drawn, as long as there are no hens in there. I try to separate mine...